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Monday, 1 July 2019

American transport Morgan City stranded according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad dated 7 September 1898

An item dated Nagasaki 4 September reported that the American troop transport Morgan City underway from San Francisco towards Manila was beached at Onomichi, Japan badly leaking caused be being grounded in the eastern entrance of the Northern Channel. The troops landed safely and were to be transported with another transport to Manilla, Philippines.